Sam Dekker (Decker)

Sam Dekker (nee Draper) grew up without a lot of friends. He was a very smart kid, but kids don't care about that. So, he had a lot of trouble fitting in at school.His mother's best friend, growing up, was Muku Kanto. And, when they two of them finished college together, they moved in to houses next door from each other to start their respective lives.Muku is the mayor of Harabuya now, but when Sam was growing up he just knew her as Auntie Muku. And, while his social inadequacies made life difficult for him at school, his Auntie Muku loved the crap out of him.Sam never learned how to interact with people. He was a fat, unathletic kid. And he grew into a fat unathletic man. The only place where he could escape being a fat kid that people made fun of was in the matrix, where he annihilated everyone in the games. People didn't like him there, either. But at least he was beating them instead of the other way around. Sam's love of the matrix, and his obvious intellectual and logical prowess, got him a full scholarship to pursue an engineering degree. And he graduated top of his class. But, when he got out of college he found it impossible to find a job. His resume made its way to the top of every pile, but he never made it past a first interview. So, with his particular skill set and his inability to turn that skill set into a respectable job, Sam turned to shadow running to eke out a living.

Online Fame (for being a famous online gamer) - Congratulations, you’re famous! Well, sort of. You are only famous as a Matrix persona. Maybe you’re a famous blogger, an online gaming hero, or a cyberpunk roleplaying-game freelance author (be still your beating heart). People know your icon and your signature, but even your most ardent fan wouldn’t recognize you if they passed you in the street on a brightly lit day. Further, none would actually believe you if you tried to tell them (quite the opposite, in fact). You gain +2 dice to your Social tests and +2 dice to your Social Limit when interacting with someone who knows you, but only when you interact with them via the Matrix. Characters who see your icon are able to identify you with a successful Intuition + Logic (2) Test.Any character who is able to see both your icon and your physical self is thrown into a conflict. Either they will believe you are truly him, or they will refuse to believe and think you are trying to impersonate, erm, yourself.If they believe you, your bonus becomes +3 on Social Tests and Social Limit toward your ecstatic fan, which now applies to all interactions, not just Matrix ones.However, if they do not believe you, you suffer –4 to all Social interactions. In addition, the character may outright attack you or call the police to report you.To determine a character’s reaction, the gamemaster may roll a single D6. On a roll of 5 or 6, the character believes you. On any other roll, the character does not.

Overclocker - The character is able to coax more juice out of his gear. The character may add 1 point of Rating to one of his cyberdeck’s ASDF attributes. This point can be reallocated as desired any time the cyberdeck is reconfigured.